from Hacker News

I am a doctoral student and was given a Surface Pro as part of the program. It is pre-loaded with SPSS and other packages used in our courses.

Being a long-time MBP user, I was skeptical. But, I've since become hooked on its stylus and its use as an e-reader (the other reason the school hands these out).

I'd like to do a full linux install on the machine but don't want to lose support for the stylus and the nice e-reader functionality (highlighting with the stylus, writing in margins, auto screen orientation, etc).

At the moment the furthest I've gone is enabling the linux subsystem that allows one to run linux command line tools. Through that I use bash, vim, R, etc. but would prefer a full GUI install.

If I could accomplish that, I might retire my MBP completely as the Surface Pro is so functional.

Thoughts? Anyone running linux on a Surface Pro?